To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Landscape paintings

page01

We copy the notice of our townsman, Mr. Winter, from the Lafayette Journal

Landscape Paintings

The Art of Painting is more varied, and open to individual taste;to practitioners in the various schools, and those of natural good tastewithout practical knowledge, or the course conceptions of the crude,which the mind of man has laid down as scientific, or mechanical.Indeed no two persons agree upon the merit of any one piece; and all,who profess to know anything about it, have their choice of schoolsof coloring, of select subjects, and all the varieties of the Art. Itis therefore and impossible thing for any painter to please a whole com-munity, and no one should paint with an eye to that result. Everyschool had its one originator – its Raphael, its Vandyke, its Reubens,its Titan, its Claude, its Poussins, and its Moreland, with hundredsof distinguished names who surpassed their masters. In this county,amid our peculiarly wild scenes, and the peculiar character of men whofrom the forest free – artists of great powers have sprung up, andplaced alongside of the graceful landscapes of Italy, the rural beautyof England, and the rugged hills and trosachs, and placid lakes, ofScotland – the magnificent rivers, gnarled forests, and mountainfastnesses of the young America.

Among these my be classed Mr. George Winter, who to gratify aromantic nature, and mingle with the race of red-men, visited thecountry along and around the Wabash, when that region was the homeand hunting-ground of the Pottawatamie [ Potawatami]. Through the friendship ofCol. A. C. Pepper, Indian Agent, he was afforded ample opportunitiesof noting the habits, manners, costumes and bearing of the tenants ofthe woods; to see them in council and a-field; scenes of highly exciting,novel interest. The calm, transparent lake, the forest undisturbed by

Images in the George Winter Collection should not be used without written permission from the Tippecanoe County Historical Association. To obtain reproduction rights and prices, contact the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, http://www.tcha.mus.in.us

We copy the notice of our townsman, Mr. Winter, from the Lafayette Journal

Landscape Paintings

The Art of Painting is more varied, and open to individual taste;to practitioners in the various schools, and those of natural good tastewithout practical knowledge, or the course conceptions of the crude,which the mind of man has laid down as scientific, or mechanical.Indeed no two persons agree upon the merit of any one piece; and all,who profess to know anything about it, have their choice of schoolsof coloring, of select subjects, and all the varieties of the Art. Itis therefore and impossible thing for any painter to please a whole com-munity, and no one should paint with an eye to that result. Everyschool had its one originator – its Raphael, its Vandyke, its Reubens,its Titan, its Claude, its Poussins, and its Moreland, with hundredsof distinguished names who surpassed their masters. In this county,amid our peculiarly wild scenes, and the peculiar character of men whofrom the forest free – artists of great powers have sprung up, andplaced alongside of the graceful landscapes of Italy, the rural beautyof England, and the rugged hills and trosachs, and placid lakes, ofScotland – the magnificent rivers, gnarled forests, and mountainfastnesses of the young America.

Among these my be classed Mr. George Winter, who to gratify aromantic nature, and mingle with the race of red-men, visited thecountry along and around the Wabash, when that region was the homeand hunting-ground of the Pottawatamie [ Potawatami]. Through the friendship ofCol. A. C. Pepper, Indian Agent, he was afforded ample opportunitiesof noting the habits, manners, costumes and bearing of the tenants ofthe woods; to see them in council and a-field; scenes of highly exciting,novel interest. The calm, transparent lake, the forest undisturbed by